The Tragedy of Macbeth
Pictures

 

The three weird sisters are making a deed:

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog
and filthy air"

 

Banquo and Macbeth meet the three weird sisters for the first time:

"What are these? So withered and so wild in their attire
that look not like the inhabitants of the Earth. And yet are on it?
Speak if you can.
What are you?"

 

The weird sisters greet Macbeth and predict his future:

"All hail, Macbeth. Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.
All hail, Macbeth. Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.
All hail, Macbeth, that shall be king hereafter."
 

 

Macbeth is made Thane of Cawdor (as the weird sisters predicted):

"Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor. The greatest is behind."

 

Macbeth meets King Duncan: 

"Welcome hither.
I have begun to plant thee
and will labour to make thee full of growing."

 

Lady Macbeth gives a dagger to her husband, in order to kill King Duncan.

 

Lady Macbeth on the top of the tower:

"The raven himself is hoarse,

that croaks the fatal entrance
of Duncan under my battlements.

Come, you Spirits that tend on
mortal thoughts. Unsex me here.

Fill me from the crown to the
toe top-full of direst cruelty.

Make thick my blood. Stop up
the access and passage to remorse
that no compunctious visiting
of nature shake my fell purpose."

 

Lady Macbeth and her husband are preparing a sleeping potion for
Duncan's chamberlains.

 

Macbeth has an hallucination (he sees a flying dagger):

"Come, let me clutch thee.
I have theen not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"

 

Macduff discovers the corpse of the King:

"Horror, horror! Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Murder hath broke open the Lord's anointed temple
and stole thence the life of the building!"

 

Macbeth is proclaimed
King of Scotland.

 

Macbeth speaks to the murderers who have to kill Banquo and his son Fleance:

"Now, if you have a station in the file, not in the worst rank of manhood, say it. And I will put that business in your bosoms whose execution takes your enemy off. Grapples you to the heart and love of us who wear our health but sickly in his life which in his death were perfect."

 

The two murderers are preparing a trap for Banquo and his son, Fleance.

 

Macbeth, thinking about Banquo's murder:

"Come, seeling night, scarf up
the tender eye of pitiful day.
And with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel
and tear to pieces that great
bond which keeps me pale."

 

Banquo's ghost appears at Macbeth's table.

"Which of you have done this?"
 

 

First appartion (a boy):

"Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man."

 

Second Apparition (Donaldain and Malcom):

"None of woman born shall harm Macbeth."

 

Macbeth's prophetic vision of Banquo's triumphant heirs as kings of Scotland:

"That crown doth sear mine eyeballs!"

 

Lady Macbeth's tries to
clean her hands:

"Yet there's a spot.
Out, damned spot. Out, I say.
One. Two. [...] What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"

 

Lady Macbeth's reads Macbeth's letter:

"While I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, Thane of Cawdor, by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with: 'Hail, king that shall be!' This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner the greatness that thou mightst not be ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell."

 

Macbeth's famous monologue after his
wife's death:

"Life's but a walking shadow.
A poor player struts and frets
his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing."

 

The English army is preparing to attack Macbeth's castle.

 

Macbeth sees Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane:

"
Fear not till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane.
And now a wood comes to Dunsinane."
 

 

The English army is lined up in front of Macbeth's Castle and it's ready to assault it.

 

Macbeth speaks to the crowd of soldiers who have attacked his castle: 

"What's he that was not
born of woman?
Such a one am I to fear,
or none."

 

 

Macduff sais to Macbeth that he was not born of woman:

"Despair thy charm
and let the angel
whom thou hast served tell thee
Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped."

 

Macbeth and Macduff fight:

"Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane and thou opposed being of no woman born
yet I will try the last. Lay on, Macduff. And damned be him that first cries, «Hold, enough!»"

 

Rosse crowns the new
King of Scotland, after Macbeth's death.


 

 


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